Doors & Staging Areas

[Former Member]

Hi Forum,

I activated the doors & staging area functionallity for outbound process and there's something I couldn't understand.

Besides the information of the door & staging area in the TO header, what is the real benefit?

I mean, the destination (Storage Type 916 / Delivey) is the same without using doors & staging area.

Regards,

[Former Member]

Hi,

Door

Definition

This is the location where the goods arrive at or leave the warehouse. It is an organizational unit

that is assigned to the warehouse number.

Trucks drive up to the doors of a warehouse in order to unload or load goods there. The doors

are located in physical proximity to the respective staging areas

Use

To optimize the putaway and pick processes in your warehouse, you can define doors and

staging areas in a warehouse number. You can also assign the doors to the staging areas as

goods receiving and shipping points. The staging area is added to the door in the delivery

document if there is no other assignment listed under u201CDoor and Staging Area Determinationu201D.

You can also assign different functions, even simultaneously, to a door. These include:

Goods receipts

Goods issues

Cross-docking

Flow through

The system finds the doors and staging areas for the individual deliveries using search criteria

that help to optimize the material flow during putaway, cross-docking, and picking.

Door

You create this organizational structure in Customizing for Warehouse Management under the

path Master Data Define Doors [Ext.].

Staging Area

Definition

This is an organizational unit that is assigned hierarchically to the warehouse number. It is used

to organize the goods flow in the warehouse.

Use

Staging areas are used for interim storage of goods in the warehouse. They are located in close

proximity to the doors assigned to them. Staging areas can also be defined, even

simultaneously, for different purposes:

Goods receipts

Interim storage of unloaded goods until they are put away

Goods issues

Interim storage of picked goods until they are loaded on a truck

In Customizing for Warehouse Management, you assign the staging areas to the respective

doors under the path Master Data Define Staging Areas [Ext.].

[philippe_marque]

Hi,

The door is a criteria for :

- RF queue determination -> if you have several trucks to load, you can assign 1 picker per door / truck.

- shipment creation.

Depends how your shipping department is organized ...

Rgds,

Philippe